Cuba drilling for oil 6,000 meters deep at sea
Cuban
Radar
Cuba
drilling for oil 6,000 meters deep at sea
A
service by the Radio Progreso Alternativa Havana Bureau
Alexis
Rodríguez, from Cuba Petróleo (CUPET), told Cuban TV that
operations at the Varadero West 1000 drilling site, about 5
kilometers out to sea, advances satisfactorily. The well will reach
6,000 meters deep and drilling is being done from land, which is a
first for Cuba.
The
CUPET-financed project has foreign advisers and it was reported that
its investment will be recouped in its first year of production.
Order
of the Quetzal to Fidel Castro
Guatemalan
President Álvaro Colom delivered to President Raúl Castro the Order
of the Quetzal in its degree of Commander to be given to Cuban leader
Fidel Castro. The Order is Guatemala’s highest decoration.
President
Colom said that awarding the Order to Fidel Castro is a token of
gratitude for the solidarity that the former President has offered
Guatemala.
Raúl
Castro thanked the Guatemalan president for decoration and in a brief
speech spoke about the historical links between both nations.
Cuba
renews its air fleet
Rogelio
Acevedo, president of Cuba’s Institute of Civil Aeronautics (IACC)
told journalists that Cuba will continue to renew its air fleet. The
coming arrival of a new Russian-built TU-204 cargo plane is part of
that endeavor.
The
assertion was delivered by Acevedo at Varadero’s International
Airport during the celebration of Cuban Civil Aviation Day.
Inauguration
of a plaza dedicated to Guatemala
Guatemalan
President Álvaro Colom, on Monday, Feb. 16, during his visit to
Cuba, inaugurated a plaza in Havana dedicated to his country, a
sample of brotherhood between both.
Referring
to the sculptures that will rise on the site of the Cuban capital,
President Colom underlined that the plaza will represent the
collective memory of both nations linked by their national symbols.
The
group of sculptures, by Andrés González, will perpetuate the memory
of Cuban José Joaquín Palma and Guatemalan Rafael Álvarez Ovalle,
authors of the lyrics and music, respectively, of Guatemala’s
national anthem.
President
Colom praised the symbolic value of placing the founding stone of the
monument between a royal palm tree and a ceiba, the national trees of
Cuba and Guatemala.
In
a subsequent declaration to the press, he reiterated his — and Latin
America’s — condemnation of the U.S. economic, finance and trade
blockade against Cuba.
Cuba,
he said, is an admirable island because of its achievements and for
its developments in all fields, in spite of material limitations and
imperialist hostility.
He
also praised Chávez for last Sunday’s referendum victory in
Venezuela, which he said is proof that the countries of the region
are building models most adequate to their needs and demands.
Venezuela
has achieved advancement for its people, because the people
themselves have decided their destiny, he concluded.
After
the ceremony, President Colom met with members of the Union of
Guatemalan Residents in Cuba and with diplomats present at the
ceremony.
